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• Radio Program: “How Schools are Responding to Iowa’s New Book Ban”

  18-08-2024 16:15 via infodocket.com
  From Iowa Public Radio:
  Last year, an Iowa law that required schools to remove books that contain a depiction of a ‘sex act’ was put on pause by a temporary injunction, but an appeals court decision has cleared the way for the law to go into effect.
  A decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed the temporary injunction on Iowa’s book ban law last week. The law contains a provision that requires schools to remove books from the school library, classro
  
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• Report: Elton John’s Donates Approximately 2,000 Books to Emory University Libraries

  18-08-2024 00:32 via infodocket.com
  From an Emory Libraries Blog Post:Woodruff Library staff at Elton John’s condo reviewing his book collection. Source: Emory Libraries
  Woodruff Library came to acquire these unique materials out of happenstance. Elton John recently sold his Atlanta condo, which he had lived in since the 1990s. He reportedly often purchased three copies of a photography book – one for each of his residences in Atlanta, London, and Los Angeles. Upon selling his Buckhead home, the artist’s cur
  
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